# Fractures at Sorrells Residential Framing, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018032346` · 3/8/2018 · ATLANTIC BEACH, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** Sorrells Residential Framing, Inc.
- **Location:** 364 7th Street, ATLANTIC BEACH, FLORIDA, 32233
- **NAICS:** 238130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a 3-feet by 5-feet AC wood platform while on a 6-foot A-frame ladder when the weight of the platform shifted and knocked him off balance, causing his left leg to be caught between the ladder's rungs as he fell about 4 feet to the floor. He suffered a compound fracture to his left leg and was hospitalized.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*